There are many reasons you might want Google to stop indexing a page on your site. Maybe the content is outdated and no longer relevant. Maybe you need to remove the content for legal reasons. Or maybe you simply no longer want to be online.
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Whatever drives your decision, Google makes the process fairly easy. That said, it\u2019s important to note that there are a few distinct processes for content removal, depending on how you want to go about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To remove a page that contains outdated information, open up the Google Search Console and navigate to the Removals page. You can find it here<\/a>. Copy the URL you want Google to axe from the search engine results page, then hit \u201crequest removal.\u201d Note that Google may choose to deny your removal request for one or more of the following reasons<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n There are two ways you can request Google to stop indexing a page on your site. The first, most technical, reasons involves using the noindex tag. I\u2019d recommend against it because there\u2019s talk that Google might stop supporting it<\/a>. The second involves using Google\u2019s Search Console. Note that you can only do this if you\u2019ve registered your site. Don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s a fairly simple process. Once your site has been registered and you\u2019ve proven ownership, click on Optimization in the Search Console dashboard. One of the sub-menus should be Remove URL. Click on that, submit a request for removal, and enter the URL of the offending page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note that unless you delete the page after requesting removal, the deletion may only be temporary \u2014 Google may crawl it again in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If your reason for requesting content removal is for legal purposes or because it contains personal information, things get a little more complicated<\/a>. You\u2019ll need to use Google\u2019s legal content removal tool<\/a>. Select the website or service on which the content appears, select your reason for requesting removal, and provide Google with any other relevant information. Note that it\u2019s incredibly rare for you to have to use this tool on your own website. But it\u2019s important to be aware of it all the same. There are many reasons you might want Google to stop indexing a page on your site. Maybe the content is outdated and no longer relevant. Maybe you need to remove the content for legal reasons. Or maybe you simply no longer want to be online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seohost.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seohost.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seohost.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seohost.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seohost.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seohost.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.seohost.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seohost.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seohost.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seohost.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seohost.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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